No point to this...

Aidan and Ella are spending the night at Janille's, so it's almost like we are child-less, so I have to post while I've got the time. ☺

 My little terror on wheels. He's FAST too.

Ella found a money clip in my bag (a very nice money clip that Chris gave us as a wedding present) and decided that it's her phone.

 Erev Shabbat. I've been trying to make Friday night supper a little more special, even if it's just eating by candlelight.

Interview

So on Pinterest I saw some "Interview with your kids" ideas going around so I thought it would be fun to do that with Aidan and Ella. I'm glad I did because it was quite hilarious.
Interview with Aidan
How old are you? "I'm four! I'm five mommy, and then I can go to kindergarten." Ahem.
What is your favorite color? "Blue"
Who is your best friend? "Jordy"
Favorite animal? "Zebra"
What do you want to be when you grow up? "I wanna be nothing." after a little bit of prodding that nothing was not an acceptable answer, "I want to drive big semi trucks, a yellow one with a front engine."
Favorite movie? "Dinotopia" I couldn't decipher the title of the movie, but apparently they watched it at school this morning and it has lots of dinosaurs in it.
Favorite book? "Mighty Machines book and the Farm book".
What makes you happy? "Twelve cents"
What makes you sad? "A big, big monster that can make me sad"
Favorite food "Breadsticks and broccoli"
Favorite song to sing "Dinotopia song"
What games do you like to play? "Ya games, they have lots of bad guys that can kill lots of monsters" (I don't know what "Ya games" are.)


Interview with Ella
How old are you? "I four!" You're not four, how old are you? "I two, I two!"
What is your favorite color? "Purple"
Who is your best friend?  "Aidan"
Favorite animal? "I like cows! I like horses! I like puppies! Ruff! Ruff! I like Yo Gabba Gabba!"
What do you want to do when you grow up? "Grow up?" "Ride horses!"
Favorite movie? "Madagascar"
Favorite book? "I like teacher Gwendy!"
What makes you happy? "I wearing purple!"
What makes you sad? "I crying"
Favorite food? "Carrots! "I like pizza. I like lemon bars."
Favorite song to sing? "Down by the station early in the morning!"
What games do you like to play? "Hide! Seek!"

Bundled up and ready to go to school! It's been cold this week.

 Britton has hit the stage where the dishwasher is the coolest thing on the planet and no matter where he is in the house, he can detect if you are loading or unloading it and he comes in a hurry to help you out.

 He's incredibly cute, and this week he's starting to get two more teeth coming in, so he's kind of a cranky little beast.

Hanks Winter Party 2011

Last weekend we were all supposed to head to Duck Creek for our annual night at the lodge with the Hanks family, but the day before we were supposed to leave the place got snowed out and we had to cancel those plans. :(  It was decided that everyone who could, we would all get together at EskDale instead and still have a dinner together.

So we hung out, ate some awesomely cooked beef, had an ugly sweater contest, decorated a gingerbread house, sang some carols, and ate some more dessert.

Some of us got together the next morning for a brunch too, but I didn't get any pictures of that.

The dessert table

Sharon had to save Amber from Isaac. ;)

Ugly sweater contest!

Winners of the ugly sweaters

Cutest little boy on the planet.

Grandpa John and Amber

Aidan posing for the camera....

Badabadaboom!

Man, I was doing well with updating the blog and everything and then BAM! The internet went down Wednesday night and it wasn't restored until Monday at noon. because Beehive is awesome.
Yep, five days without the internet, there was much wailing and nashing of teeth. Nothing like finding out how dependent you are on something, like say when you need a recipe for a family party and it's online. Oh darn. I hate to say that I did get somewhat used to it and Cary and I were much more productive those five days! Even though we had stuff scheduled over the weekend, we managed to get the coat hooks up in the back-entry.

 In protest of all my white, Cary wanted to leave these the natural wood color...

 Ah...I won. ☺ Just kidding, he saw the light.

 We aren't done with this room yet, we've been waiting for an item at IKEA that has been out of stock for like a month now! *Shaking my little fist* We need that before we can finish the rest, but I'm thrilled to now have a place to hang coats. I'm debating painting the white knobs on the bottom there some fun colors...what do you think? Yay or Nay?

 I had a birthday over the weekend. I'm 31. That's so weird.
Things wrong with this picture.
-I look pregnant (I'm not!)
-I still haven't hemmed the curtains
-I still haven't cleaned the mirror
-Showers are good
-Ella's room is a disaster, but that just means that the kids have fun in there, right? ☺